Deputy Minister Senator Datuk Raja Kamarul Bahrin Shah maintained that all of the possible outcomes of and challenges to local government elections were being studied in the workshops and will be addressed in the Cabinet paper. — Picture by Ahmad Zamzahuri
“The government needs to amend a few laws before it implements local government elections. Among them is the Local Government Election Act 1960, amended in 1991, which must be reactivated and amended. In her supplementary question, the Opposition lawmaker then pointed out that Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad already said last December that the government will not reintroduce local government elections over concerns they may cause race-related conflicts.
The study also covered the United States of America and the system used in the non-Commonwealth state for its local government elections.